Steemit.com Web Servers DDOS Attacked Again!

Anyone having issues accessing the site this morning can blame whomever is responsible for a somewhat powerful DDOS (distributed denail of service) attack which started a few hours back. Steemit Inc has been battling the assault which in it's peak saw over 150K requests a second being pointed at the front end servers used to share the Steemit website.

Mitigation of the DDOS is underway and more web servers are being brought online in order to get the site back to operation status. @sneak has been working his ass off the past few hours trying to get us up and running again. Hopefully soon all regions will have access.

Alternative STEEM Platforms

In the event Steemit.com is down you can use the sites https://busy.org as well as https://chainbb.com to view, post and transfer just as you do here. In the future more platforms are likely to become popular. The two mentioned above are from trusted developers. Be cautious of other sites or steemit clones..

It shows that Steemit is on the right track...the frequency of attack says that they are doing something right...long-term it would make this project more robust and better equipped for the mass adoption, I see these things as blessings...

How many times does this make? I'm curious, because if it's multiple downages that usually points to a blackmail via DDoS, and one of the administrators should have gotten a blackmail message, or will be soon.

Thank you for the information @klye, this is very important news for me and all, I will give this news to all my friends, so they are not wrong in doing all activities here, I am also afraid my password will fall into the hands of others.

Thanks Klye. I was only just now able to access my account. The bad guys are definitely to blame. But the Steemit technical team will have to learn how to protect the servers. Downtime is never good. Fingers crossed they can get a handle on this.

I thought my connection was acting up, Thanks for the post. Good to know our tech hero's are on the job and installing more servers. Life is Good
thanks to a resteem from @aggroed I found you ( fellow Canadian & timely information posts ) Now watching for more.
Cheers

i think this is one of the situations where the steem platform shines. The fact that the main blockchain is separated from the front end site means that if one front end is down, you can use another one.

Here's what i think happened, it's probably the work of a competitor, there are so many new players in pipeline building on steem blockchain. What better way to introduce an alternative by taking the steemit down, I hope the steemit team fights it.